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Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Work

Phoronix: Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Work

Not a lot of work has gone into Red Hat's Plymouth project since the release of Fedora 10, but now in the middle of the development cycle of Fedora 11 we are seeing some new work emerge. Plymouth is a boot splash program that leverages kernel mode-setting to provide a rich, flicker-free boot experience...

Atm there's not really a lot of documentation out there (I've read doc in the git tree), so excuse me, if I ask:

Which files exactly would one have to tune to get it to work with let's say Debian?

I'd like to give it a try (in fact I've got modesetting working here nearly without issues) but I realize that changing the boot-process of a system doesn't seem to be an easy task (at least if you are not involved into such stuff).

Are there any plans for Debian?
(No, I'm not asking about Ubuntu and their upstart.)

Atm there's not really a lot of documentation out there (I've read doc in the git tree), so excuse me, if I ask:

Which files exactly would one have to tune to get it to work with let's say Debian?

I'd like to give it a try (in fact I've got modesetting working here nearly without issues) but I realize that changing the boot-process of a system doesn't seem to be an easy task (at least if you are not involved into such stuff).

Are there any plans for Debian?
(No, I'm not asking about Ubuntu and their upstart.)

Well you'll need a kernel and graphics card that plays nice with KMS. This basically means you'll need the latest kernel and either an intel or ati graphics card.

Upstart is actually a replacement for the SystemV init system. Plymouth is more parallel to ubuntu's Usplash.

Who cares about plymouth?

In many ways it feels as though plymouth is a very small upside from kms. The wayland project on the other hand seems like it can make a real difference in the users experience after the brief boot window.

Ideally, the transition from the boot splash animation to the login screen should be as seamless as possible.

Will KMS utilize more graphics modes so that we don't have, for example, a 1024x768 splash screen followed by a 1280x800 X Server login screen?

From what I've seen so far, KMS (and therefore Plymouth) sets, among other things, the resolution to the preferred one right away, which means that once that has been done, all the things (Plymouth, X, and then fullblown GDM) are booted and displayed without any flickering / screen resolution changes.